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    Received my DV5-1010 but.....

    Discussion in 'HP' started by happy_2008, Dec 19, 2008.

  1. happy_2008

    happy_2008 Newbie

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    Received my DV5-1010 but i couldnt believe how much bloatware it come with it. Powering up the laptop felt like time stood still for a few minutes and the amount of rubbish that HP put on the system is unreal. Originally i planned to just remove some bloatware but having seen that there is soooo much on the system i think it would be better to re-install a fresh copy of Vista and also take this opportunity to stick 64bit instead of 32bit :) to make use of the 4GB ram.

    Btw would it be a good idea to burn my recovery CD first :) and then do the fresh install..........?
     
    happy_2008, Dec 19, 2008
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yeah burn the DVD's before doing a clean install otherwise you would have no option of going back to factory state since the HDD partiton wont work after a clean install.
     
    miner, Dec 19, 2008
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    Oberkanone Notebook Evangelist

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    there is a clean install sticky topic at top of this section because of all the bloatware
    HP believes in bloatware
     
    Oberkanone, Dec 19, 2008
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